Language Arts Day

January 8, 2009

Language Arts Keynotes:
Mary Hall - Warwick (Cohort 1)
Marcella Oathout

Session One Selections:

  • Digital Photography for Vocabulary Study in the Inclusive Classroom
  • Blogging and Podcasting through Podbean
  • Wikis in English
  • Movie Trailers: A Digital Tease
  • Web Strategies for Creative Writing
  • Read/Write/Think in the Language Arts Classroom

Session Two Selections:

  • SSR Meets RSS: Making Reading Time Relevant
  • Quia
  • Wikispaces and Photostory
  • Differentiation Through Technology in the Language Arts Classroom
  • Student Response System -- ActiVotes (Kelly Murphy)
  • Shakespeare and Web Quests
  • Thinkfinity

Session Three Selections:


  • Differentiation through Technolgy in the Language Arts Classroom
  • Google Earth Virtual Field Trips Literature tie-ins
  • Novel Podcasting
  • Breaking Down Walls with Web 2.0 Tools: Collaboration Across Time and Space
  • Whirlygig

Roundtables (for the afternoon):

  • Podcasting (Mardy McGaw)
  • Blogging (Aly Tapp)
  • Google Tools (Michelle Krill, GTC....unless she can't come)
  • Wikispaces (Sue Sheffer)